The word unnecessary comes to mind when I think of this movie. Unnecessary plot twists, deaths, and when you get right down to it and unnecessary movie altogether due to the fact that the film The Last Winter already covered this hypothesis last year.
I have seen some of the worst of the gore, Ichi the Killer, Audition, B-Movie Bloody Movies, tons of zombie flicks and yet nothing had really prepared me for this movie. I will start off with the good points, the few ones that there were because had it not been such an obvious “let’s take advantage of the R rating!” plot it could have been a good movie.
I thought that Mark Walhberg did a good job playing the main character/leader. Zooey Deschanel character I think was meant to be portrayed as flakey in the beginning so that’s probably why the acting threw me a little off but she pulled it together towards the end with a strong finish to the film. I thought that John Leguizamo did a great job. In fact his last scene in the film moved me to tears & almost made me leave the theater at the same time.
Now for the bad… So much death and it was just so completely pointless. I guessed the plot as soon as someone mentioned a park and the twists and turns made no sense in the overall story. The ending was okay I guess, it ended the way you would expect in a M. Night film. Almost happy but then again, not.
In short I do NOT recommend this film for former cutters like myself; it will shake you up a lot. And those who have thought of suicide in the past might want to consider renting. It’s very disturbing and a bit overboard if you ask me. Enter at your own risk.
By the way, new layout. And please don’t text message me while I’m asleep to tell me you hate it…you know who you are. Thanks. I do work after all. And a facebook message would work just fine.
This Memorial Day weekend I watched a few movies. The most memorable being The Last Winter directed by Larry Fessenden with Ron Perlman and James LeGros starring. I had read a good review about it in EW magazine and had waited a while for it to come out. It sucks how those independent films always take forever to come out on DVD after they leave theaters. And they aren’t ever in theaters long enough to see them either. A week tops where I live. Be Kind Rewind was only in theaters for a week; so sad and such a great movie too.
